Chapter 3 Objectives
Identify the widely used Define application software application software products and explain their key features Understand how system software interacts with Identify various products application software available as Web applications
Identify the role of the user Describe the learning aids Chapter 3 interface available with many software applications Application Software Explain how to start a software application
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What is application software? What are the categories of application software? To serve as a productivity/ • Programs that business tool perform specific To assist with tasks for users graphics and • Also called a multimedia projects software application or an To support application household activities, • Several reasons to for personal use application business, or for education software To facilitate communications Next Next p. 3.2 p. 3.2 Fig. 3-1
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What is system software? What is an antivirus program? • Programs that • A utility that prevents, detects, and removes viruses control the from a computer’s memory or storage devices operations of the computer • Serves as the Some interface viruses between the destroy or user, the corrupt data application software, and the computer's hardware Next Next p. 3.3 Fig. 3-2 p. 3.3 Fig. 3-3
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What is an application window? What is a menu? command • A rectangular • A menu Start menu area of the contains title bar screen that commands Accessories submenu displays a you can All Programs toolbar submenu program, data, select and/or information
shortcut Imaging program menu command
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Application Software Productivity Software
Print What is a dialog box? dialog box What is productivity software? • A special window • Software that provides that assists information, people in presents available check box becoming options, or more requests a text box effective response and efficient
option buttons
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Productivity Software Productivity Software What is word processing software? What is clip art? • Allows users • A collection of to create drawings, and diagrams, and manipulate photographs documents that you can Word that contain window insert into text and documents graphics
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2 Productivity Software Productivity Software What are some word processing features? What is a major advantage of using a word processor? • You can easily The house was deep in a insert, delete, or secludedsecludedremote part of the Specify margins rearrange words, woods. The trees sentences, surrounded the porch in a protective circle. paragraphs or Small clusters of pink entire sections and white flowers lined replacereplace • Spelling and the walk leading up to Word wrap Scrolling the door. grammar checker findfind or or searchsearch Next Next p. 3.8 p. 3.9
Productivity Software Productivity Software What are other popular word processing features? What are the stages of developing a document?
autoformat autocorrect header/ footer Formatting Editing columns
collaboration tables
mail merge Creating macros thesaurus templates tracking Web page changes development Saving Printing Next voice Next p. 3.9 recognition p. 3.10
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font size What is a font? What is a file? A name assigned to a font specific design of • A named filefile name name on on characters collection of data, titletitle bar bar Font size specifies the instructions, or size or the characters in a particular font in information points • Each file has a • A single point is Font styles file name about 1/72 of an inch in height Font style adds emphasis to a font such Next as bold, italic, and Next p. 3.10 Fig. 3-11 underline p. 3.10
3 Productivity Software Productivity Software What is voice recognition? What is spreadsheet software? • The computer’s capability of distinguishing spoken • Allows you to words Step 1:2:3:4:5:6: Say,Say,Say, Say,“VoiceSay, “Forty “Dictation”“Algerian” “Green” Command”Say, Eight” “Font”. and andto and instruct then tothen then instruct say, say, say,the the organize data programprogram you“Font“Font you will“End”. willColor”.beSize”. dictating. be issuing Say, • Performs commands.“Car for Say, sale”. “Center”. calculations • Called a worksheet or spreadsheet
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Next cellcell Next =C4+C5+C6+C7+C8 p. 3.12 Fig. 3-13 p. 3.12
Productivity Software Productivity Software What is a function? What is recalculation? • A predefined formula that performs common • The capability of recalculating the rest of the calculations worksheet when data in a worksheet changes • What- if analysis =C4+C5+C6+C7+C8 =SUM(C4:C8)
NewNew data data SU T V entered Projected College Cash Flow Analysis M I TE S P entered T M DA N Expenses IN GE E B ERA A Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Total AV LOG Totals Room & Board$ 3,290.00 $ 3,454.50 $ 3,627.23 $ 3,808.59 $ 14,180.32 PV R RATE MAX Totals Tuition & Books 10,000.00 4,850.00 10,500.00 5,092.50 11,000.00 5,347.13 11,500.00 5,614.48 43,000.0020,904.11 tag">C O recalculated Tuition & Books 10,000.00 10,500.00 11,000.00 11,500.00 43,000.00 O EV recalculated Clothes 490.00 514.50 540.23 567.24 2,111.97 U IN U D PMT T Entertainment 635.00 666.75 700.09 735.09 2,736.93 Next N M N T R Next T S Q Miscellaneous 325.00 341.25 358.31 376.23 1,400.79 p. 3.13 D SU S p. 3.13 M Total $ 14,740.00 9,590.00 $ 15,477.0010,069.50 $ 16,225.8610,572.99 $ 16,987.1511,101.63 $ 63,430.0141,334.12 IF NOW FV LN
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What is charting? What is a database? • Allows you to display spreadsheet data in graphical • A collection of form data organized in a manner that allows columncolumn lineline chart chart chartchart access, retrieval, and use of that data piepie chart chart
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Productivity Software Productivity Software What is database software? What are the parts of a database? A table contains records • Allows you to create, access, and manage a A record is a row in a table that contains information about a given database person, product, or event • Also called a database management system A field is a column in a table that contains a specific piece of information within a record (DBMS) fieldsfields
ItemItem table table add, change, sort and create forms recordsrecords and delete data retrieve data and reports using the data
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Productivity Software Productivity Software How is a database organized? What does the table structure contain for each • Records and fields in a table are described by field? the table structure
field name
ItemItem table table structurestructure field size
SupplierSupplier table table structurestructure data type
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How do you extract information from a What is presentation graphics software? database? • Used to create documents that communicate ideas and • Sort records in a particular order messages Sometimes • Query database called a slide show
watch
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Productivity Software Productivity Software What is slide sorter view? What is a personal information manager (PIM)? • View of small versions of all the slides • An application that includes an appointment calendar, address book, and other features • Organize personal information on both desktop and handheld computers • Synchronization
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Productivity Software Productivity Software What is a software suite? What is project management software? • A collection of individual applications sold as a • Allows you to plan, schedule, track, and analyze single package the events, resources, and costs of a project • Two major advantages:
ease of use lower cost
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6 Graphics and Productivity Software Multimedia Software What is accounting software? What are some Computer-Aided Design • Helps companies record and report their popular graphics (CAD) financial transactions Desktop Publishing and multimedia (Professional) software
products? Paint/Image Editing (Professional)
Video and Audio Editing
Multimedia Authoring
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Graphics and Graphics and Multimedia Software Multimedia Software What is computer-aided design (CAD)? What is desktop publishing software? • Software that • Enables you to allows you to design and create produce engineering, sophisticated architectural, documents that and scientific contain text, designs graphics, and brilliant colors
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Graphics and Graphics and Multimedia Software Multimedia Software What is paint/image editing software? What is video and audio editing software?
Video editing • Used to create and software allows you modify graphical to modify a segment images of a video, called a • Sometimes called clip illustration software Audio editing software allows you to modify audio clips
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7 Graphics and Graphics and Multimedia Software Multimedia Software What is multimedia authoring software? What is Web page authoring software?
• Allows you to • Allows you to combine text, create Web graphics, audio, pages video, and animation into an interactive presentation • Also called authorware
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Software for Home, Software for Home, Personal, and Personal, and What software Educational Use Educational Use products are What software facilitates communication? available for home, E-mail personal, and Web browsers educational use? Chat rooms
Newsgroups
Groupware
Videoconferencing
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Applications on the Applications on the Web Web What is a Web application? What is Web-based training (WBT)? • A software application that exists on a Web site, • Self-directed, self-paced instruction on a topic on the Web such as maps and directions Some Web Distance learning applications (DL) is the delivery store your of education at one location while the data and learning takes information at place at other their site locations Some are free
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8 Applications on the Learning Aids and Web Support Tools Within an Application What is an application service provider (ASP)? What is Online Help? • Third party • Electronic equivalent of a organization that manages and user manual distributes software • Context- sensitive help and services on the Web • Allows companies to outsource information technology (IT) needs
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Learning Aids and Learning Aids and Support Tools Within an Support Tools Within an Application Application What is an FAQs page? What is a wizard? • Frequently Asked Questions • An automated assistant that helps you complete a Often task available on a Web site that provides updates
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Learning Aids and Summary of Support Tools Within an Application Software Application • Application software How can I learn more about a software • Productivity software package? • Developing a document • Books • Graphics and multimedia software •Web • Software for home, personal, and • School educational use • Software for communications • Applications on the Web • Learning aids and support tools within an application
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